And for frackers, finding enough drivers with commercial licenses to haul all that sand is an expensive challenge. This situation birthed the Dune Express, the massive conveyor belt that starts ...

It's longer than the width of Rhode Island, snakes across the oil fields of the southwest U.S. and crawls at 10 mph – too slow for a truck and too long for a train. Atlas Energy Solutions, a ...

Dynapac MF2500CS material transfer vehicle product family can handle a variety of material applications including asphalt, concrete, sand and base ... by swinging the conveyor belt up to 55 ...

West Texas is so expansive that amid all the oil wells, in between towns and across roadways, there exists room for a 40-plus-mile-spanning conveyor belt whose function is to move sand from one ...

“Pretty early on, the delivery of sand via truck was not only inefficient, it was dangerous,” he said. The conveyor belt, with a freight capacity of 13 tons (11.79 metric tonnes), was designed ...

With sand selling for about $43 a ton, Goldman Sachs analyst Neil Mehta sees Atlas’ net income surpassing $500 million by 2025, thanks in part to Brigham’s conveyor belt, which should be fully ...

A 42-mile conveyor belt by Atlas Energy carries sand needed for hydraulic fracturing Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Kermit, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) KERMIT, Texas (AP) — It's longer than the width ...

A 42-mile conveyor belt by Atlas Energy carries sand needed for hydraulic fracturing Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Kermit, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) ...